check out thins link, and go do it afterward. u will feel a difference. :thumbsup

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31633

good info. but i have no strut bar ;( anyone want to give me one?

i will have one soon..you can have it but you will need to get it polished..the one side was hitting my hood and it kinda fuked it up..so let me know..

That makes total sense.....

I will have to fix mine...hehe

Chad

Thanks for keeping your eyes open and posting this info, I'm sure it will help some people out. :thumbsup

still dont understand

i think i tightend mine outwards anyways

Well, with the neuspeed bar you shouldn't have to worry...

Thanks for the info, When I did my rear bar last weekend, I tried to get it to push out... dunno if i did it right though, those things have too many moving parts. Stupid ebay bars.. x(

But Yea, seems pretty obvious that it has to be tightened outward to push against the chassis... you're trying to hold and reinforce the shape, not help crumple it. :wary

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I am still not understanding when they mean tigthen it out....explain it to me again cause i am blond....i am putting my "duh" sticker on now

I just ordered a front bar so we will see how that works. Most front bars are hard to get tight anyway, at least the bars I have had before were. Thanks for the info. I had always tightened them in...

I dont get it? Anyone have pix for the slow?

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On a side note.

Are the majority of strut bars on ebay junk or just really great deals?

I got the procarparts.com bars and love em.....

They sell on ebay but you may aswell go to thier site....

Chad

I just got some strut bars a couple weeks ago and thats how I put them on. Once the bar was on, I just kpet flipping it so it was unscrewing it self from the bolts that attach to the mounting plate which made it push outward. Thats how I got the bar tight so it wouldn't move, then I just tightened down the nuts on the sides of the bar so you couldn't flip it anymore. Just made sense to do it that way.

Oh and I HAD to do that to the rear bar to make it even the least bit functional. The design of my rear bar is just plain a$$. I don't think any thought went into the design of it. Here's a link to a pic of what my rear bar looks like. http://store5.yimg.com/I/machv_1722_25663065 (It's looks very similar to the bar at the top of the pic.) The problem with that is the mounting plates, the part that goes up, over, and hangs down over the panels in the trunk. The bar mounts to it there, but it's really not braced against anything and the bar ain't gonna do a damn thing but move left and right or twist or whatever. I had to tighten that bish outward as far as it would go. So far in fact that the bolts on the end of the bar almost came out of the bar. Now the mounting brackets for the bar are bent inwards pushing up against the plastic panels inside my trunk, which pushes the plastic panels up against the frame so now the bar can't really move. Sure it's digging a hole into the panels, but I don't care as long as it does what it's supposed to do. Still a crappy design though. :(

Oh, and I got the bars off ebay. They're OBX type-gx bars. They looked good cause from what I saw it was a big fat beefy bar. The front bar is cool. I have no issues with that... just that rear bar design.

heheh, hope u guys enjoyed this info. its always good to give back to those who give me lots. thank u :thumbsup